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Jonsson, Emelie.

The early evolutionary imaginationliterature and human nature /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The early evolutionary imaginationby Emelie Jonsson.
其他題名:	literature and human nature /
作者:	Jonsson, Emelie.
出版者:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
面頁冊數:	xii, 300 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Evolution in literature.
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82738-0
ISBN:	9783030827380$q(electronic bk.)

The early evolutionary imaginationliterature and human nature /
Jonsson, Emelie.

The early evolutionary imaginationliterature and human nature /[electronic resource] :by Emelie Jonsson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xii, 300 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Cognitive studies in literature and performance. - Cognitive studies in literature and performance..

1. Chapter 1: Using Evolution to Explain the Evolutionary Imagination -- Chapter 2 Myth-Making in Early Evolutionary Thought -- Chapter 3: Darwinism in Literature -- Chapter 4: From Adventure to Utopia -- Chapter 5: Jack London's Evolutionary Imagination -- Chapter 6: H. G. Wells's Evolutionary Imagination -- Chapter 7: Joseph Conrad's Evolutionary Imagination -- The Unimaginable Place in Nature.

"Jonsson is the first scholar in this historical field to assimilate the most recent empirical knowledge about our evolved human nature and the psychology of imagination. Her theoretical framework provides robust explanatory power, her interpretive critiques are incisive and authoritative, and her style is lucid and vigorous. Like the best critics of any literary school, she evokes the whole imaginative world view of the authors she discusses." --Joseph Carroll, Curator's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of St. Louis, Missouri, USA "Jonsson's new book is brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, and deeply illuminating. Her premise is that Darwinian thinking represented a profound challenge to the foundational concepts of literary culture-the autonomy of the individual, the meaningfulness of human life, the importance of moral choice, and the value of art. Her argument is that literary culture in the years following Darwin explored ways of confronting this challenge, opening up a space between difficult truths and soothing fictions, and making it possible for people to grasp the unique disturbance of the Darwinian message without being destroyed by its implications." --Geoffrey Harpham, senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, USA Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity's place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin. Emelie Jonsson is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Arctic University of Norway, UiT, and Associate Editor of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Her research centers on the friction between human psychology and naturalistic cosmology.

ISBN: 9783030827380$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-82738-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

195647
Evolution in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN761

Dewey Class. No.: 809.9336

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